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I know it doesn't refer to replacing all other programs. Regardless, the idea of "earned entitlements" is a lie, and they should be ended. UBI being available

• dragonwriter 8y ago
  > Regardless, the idea of "earned entitlements" is a lie, No, it's not; they are earned and awarded based on past history of legally-defined creditable work, not based on need measures. (The portrayal sometimes made of them as self-funded mandatory investment vehicles is, at best, imprecise, but while tangentially related to th concept of an idea of an earned entitlement, it is not equivalent to it.) > and they should be ended. There may be an interesting debate there for each of them, but it is, at any rate, not part of the core argument for UBI. > UBI being available in their place is a handy way to get rid of them. I can't think of any earned entitlement (including ones that I think should be replaced by something other than an earned entitlement) for which a UBI offers a sensible replacement (and I support UBI), especially at any level we could reasonably expect to afford to provide benefits to the entire population anytime in in the next half century or so.